weakness Quotes

“Frailty, thy name is woman!”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

topic:women weakness

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

topic:life weakness

“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work; and Brown, as though he had been really great, had a satanic gift of finding...”

― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

topic:strength weakness

“it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:weakness fate

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

topic:knowledge weakness danger

“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:darkness soul weakness

“the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:humanity philosophy weakness

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

topic:nature thought weakness

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:women weakness

“So cowards fight when they can fly no further; so doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons; so desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

topic:weakness bravery

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